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(usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
1861, George Eliot, chapter III, in Silas Marner, page 40:
[…]the rich ate and drank freely, […] their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.
1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.
(historical) A small coin, formerly used in central Europe.
1872, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing and Technical Terms ..., page 268:
ORT (French), the gross weight; garbage or refuse; a Norwegian coin of 24 skillings, also called a mark, and equal to 9 1/2 d.; an Hungarian coin, containing 12 kreutzers; in Poland, 5 orts make a rix-dollar; also a Swedish money equal to 2 farthings, sometimes called a runstick.
1915, The Numismatist: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Those Interested in Coins, Medals, and Paper Money, page 245:
The coins of Sigismund III. range in value from […] the solidus, denarius, half gros, gros, 1 1/2 gros, 3 crucifer, 3 gros, 6 gros, quarter crown or thaler, (ort); half crown, crown, double crown, ducat, […] These coins are the solidus, 3 gros, 6 gros, ort (quarter thaler), thaler (crown); […]
^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “ort”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “ort”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
Så vad är sanningen om förorten? Sanningen är att orten varken saknar drömmar eller kompetens. Det är allas vårt ansvar att se till att möjliggöra dessa drömmar och frigöra all denna kompetens. Orten är inget problem – orten är en lösning!
So, what is the truth about the suburb? The truth is that the suburb lacks neither dreams nor competence. It is everyone’s responsibility to ensure these dreams are made possible and all this competence is unleashed. The suburb is not a problem – the suburb is a solution!
2022 July 19, Beatrice Emmerik, 0:10 from the start, in Här testar Raho att cykla för första gången [Here, Raho is testing cycling for the first time], spoken by Aisha Mohammed, SVT Nyheter:
Så vi har valt att skapa en cykelkurs för mammor för vi vill hjälpa mammorna i våra orter och vårt samhälle att lära sig cykla.
So we have chosen to create a cycling course for mothers because we want to help the mothers in our neighbourhoods and our community to learn to ride a bike.